Cheap Holidays to Zante - A Great Place to Visit
Zante, or Zakynthos as it’s known locally, is a great place to start your relationship with Greece holidays. The locals are lovely and the town – Zante Town – is different to a lot of the rest of Greece by virtue of it being knocked flat by an earthquake about 50 years ago and then rebuilt in a cheeky Venetian style. Yes, we just looked at a picture of it on the Interweb and can confirm it looks remarkably Venice-like. Not so many canals though. Okay, no canals at all, except for one or two that have sprung up, remarkably at the same time as those Venetian-looking hotels, such as the Louis Palazzo di Zante.
Zante Holidays - Look Out For Turtles!
Loggerhead turtles are protected here – this is important. Don’t make jokes about them. No ‘I couldn’t eat a whole one’ quips, as the locals take them very seriously. The airport closes at night to protect the little fellows (the turtles, not the locals) and there are strict rules about littering and not disturbing, harassing, or otherwise bothering the turtles. That includes catching one, taking it on bar crawls with you for the rest of the week, then trying to smuggle it back to the UK, dressing it up as your nan, claiming ‘she’s lost her passport’. They’d lock you up and throw away the key. And rightly so.
Cheap Zante holidays are fun and it's a place that’s becoming more popular, but locals still outnumber the tourists, which is good. Like many Greek island airports, the airport is tiny and can get crowded quickly. Pay close attention to when your return flight leaves, avoiding early morning departures and allow for being stuck at the airport possibly without access to facilities. Now don’t panic, we just mean take some water and any other supplies you might expect to be able to get at the airport, but won’t be able to because it’s too small and so busy. Try to avoid flying back on a Sunday. Just be prepared for Zante airport!
You could stay in Birmingham for a day or two on the way to Zante and you’d have more of the Venice effect at a bargain price. There are more miles of canal in Birmingham than there are in Venice – there are, really. Look, don’t argue, the Grande Canal in Venice is only just over two miles long where as the Birmingham Fazeley canal is 20 miles long. What’s that you say? Birmingham’s not romantic? What are you on about?! It’s got a Selfridges. And think of the money you’d save. Cheap holidays to Zante are available for that sun and sea injection.